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"predilection" Definitions
  1. predilection (for something) if you have a predilection for something, you like it very much

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Partly that reflects the tech industry's predilection for grandiose promises.
Even Instagram knows about your shameful predilection for Hallmark Christmas movies.
This mouth has a predatory predilection for young girls (daughter included).
Nevala-Lee recounts Asimov's predilection for sexual harassment and predatory behavior.
They relate — no surprise — to Trump's predilection for speaking his mind.
Another factor is a predilection for incremental improvements on existing solutions.
When she got to college, that predilection turned to a career.
Perhaps Anderson's predilection for beautiful design elements got in his way.
"Anything with aerospace has a predilection to go higher," he said.
My entire raison d'etre is to explain my predilection for asses.
That could change, though, given the president's predilection toward big donors.
He was, one might say, born with a predilection for it.
This obsessive predilection for managerialism has become more pronounced in recent decades.
But that predilection disappears in adults, while the taste for bitterness grows.
The videos allude to Cindy Sherman's film stills and predilection for disguise.
Surprisingly, many men interpret this as a reference to my sexual predilection.
But Teigen had an interesting explanation for PopSugar about her predilection for heels.
Will a bracket win solve Hamlet's persistent teenage angst and predilection for murder?
This predilection for pointed fangs is not, however, how it has always been.
Apple's predilection for secrecy is perhaps unsurprisingly in action for the Singapore site.
She has a notorious predilection for shoes, $80,000-dresses and bullet-proof bras.
And artist Am Schmidt has a predilection for Rachel Green's closet, in particular.
But Yoda is just... a frog gremlin human with a predilection for the Force?
I was caught in the trap of destructive behavior despite my predilection toward wellness.
She's named Salome and has a predilection for tearing the heads off baby pigs.
The Englishman's predilection for simple dishes with massive flavor has clearly influenced Ragnar's cooking.
Or Mr. Trump's already stated predilection for immigrants from Norway over, well, other places.
The pleasure (or agony, depending on your predilection) of reading Moss is his purity.
They rank a plant's predilection to spread on a scale of 1 to 5.
A broader question is whether Asia should be faulted for its predilection for saving.
I also learned a bit more about myself and my predilection toward dark clouds.
Also, matters of age, region and personal predilection as well as religion matter here.
Trump, as president, is acting in line with his own predilection for alleged corporate criminals.
Given its predilection for guns and sex, that leaves Hollywood with little to work with.
A police chief hopeful expounds, for no apparent reason, his predilection for whipping during sex.
Unfortunately, continued U.S. presence coupled with Saudi Arabian predilection for outsourcing tasks hinders self-sufficiency.
I am not alone in my predilection for a touch of luxe in the wild.
The episode was yet another example of Mr. Trump's predilection for sowing confusion and uncertainty.
But exercise buffered the risks, even for people born with a predilection for the condition.
Mark plays their nine-year-old son who had a predilection to dress in girl's clothes.
She has the predilection to do the selfish thing, so there will always be a project.
As news of his predilection for underage girls spread through our communities, the music never stopped.
The all-Spanish wine list is rich with sherries and that Spanish predilection, gin and tonics.
Still others found a way to accommodate Russian President Vladimir Putin's predilection for shirtless photo ops.
And in keeping with his boss's predilection, he has taken to Twitter to express his feelings.
Others appear to have an unfortunate predilection for making ominous remarks that portend the novel's conclusion.
Other research has shown a correlation between consuming bareback porn and one's predilection toward risky sex.
England has always had a predilection for hard-running midfielders; anything else seems like an indulgence.
A French author wrote for years about his predilection for children and continued to win acclaim.
This predilection can lead us to ignore the overwhelming evidence that many animals are just monsters.
Mr. Putin's predilection for Mr. Trump has nothing to do with the Kremlin's traditional preference for Republicans.
Despite medicine's historical predilection for a dress code that projects professionalism, neckties aren't deemed essential by patients.
His predilection for the darker side of magic would also mesh well with Cersei's penchant for murder.
The GT-EV was created by Don Panoz, a guy with a predilection for racing weird cars.
Besides, he's got the vocal chops and the requisite predilection for histrionics and theatricality for the part.
Orhan Pamuk, Turkey's best-known writer, has written eloquently on the national predilection for hüzün, or melancholy.
Like our predilection for saying sorry unnecessarily, EPs are a way to soften the words we say.
But there is little doubt his predilection has turned out better for the strongmen than for America.
Swenson has a predilection for figurative language that occasionally hits the lyrical mark but more often distracts.
But as the city prepares to host the Olympics in 2020, the predilection for privacy is changing.
Not to mention the president's predilection for tough talk and an increasingly militarized U.S. foreign policy apparatus.
Unbeknownst to him at the time, this predilection would last long into adulthood and even shape his career.
Before decades of isolation and sanctions, Burma had no predilection for—let alone access to—Western fast food.
I blamed Harry Styles and the floral suits that had become his predilection on his most recent tour.
He displays a disdain for facts, a predilection for lies, and a disregard for scientific expertise and knowledge.
U.S. diplomats noted his inheritance of "the family predilection for fancy cars and other emblems of conspicuous wealth".
A predilection for pork or chicken or lamb or fish or bean curd suggested specific landscapes and ethnicities.
He is the pathetic villain, the dictator whose rampant destruction betrays both his predilection for rape and impotence.
Although the vote was unofficial and nonbinding, it demonstrated the region's strong predilection towards independence and greater autonomy.
But it was in keeping with her predilection for making accusations based on nothing more than prejudiced stereotypes.
Researchers say the predilection for sweetened drinks — a major driver of the nation's obesity crisis — begins in childhood.
This admirer of "The Golden Girls" and Balanchine had a predilection for fur coats, Converse sneakers and cats.
Until his The Mountain Between Us costar Kate Winslet revealed his predilection for feet on The Graham Norton Show.
The predilection to "use up" imparts a sense of pathos, of a life inverted, in order to consider mortality.
Hacking is well-known in gaming, indicative of a predilection for hacker culture but often without the culture itself.
Now it is spreading its domain, due to the warming climate and its predilection for our built-up environment.
The NFL loves treating its own players as expendable and frankly, the rest of American industry shares that predilection.
She writes that "there is peculiarly modern predilection for psychological explanations of disease," which derives from psychology's scientific flavor.
More than a case of personal predilection or individual bias, this is because of housing policy and structural inequity.
But if you dig a little deeper, both are creative geniuses with a predilection for getting naked on camera.
ZURICH (Reuters) - Credit Suisse Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam likes to joke he has a predilection for being under pressure.
This predilection for bomber jackets harked back to the aviation chic of Amelia Earhart in the 1920s and 30s.
Given this predilection, it makes perfect sense that homemade peppermint patties are an entrenched part of my candy-making repertoire.
That form of visual storytelling mimicked Deadwood's predilection for playing around with the idea of humanity as one, massive ecosystem.
The VIX currently sits around 15, indicating that investors aren't showing a great predilection to protect against large downside moves.
Finally, the decline of Rockwell's popularity cannot be blamed solely on "his predilection for visual storytelling," as the curator suggests.
And that, of course, doesn't take into account the many people who'd never come clean about their predilection for piss.
There has been loud praise for Celtic from some commentators and deep censure from others, usually dependent on political predilection.
It should be no surprise, given his predilection for drama, that he knows the power of a well-placed pause.
"The reason they go to the machete is because it's more violent," DeAmicis said of their predilection for the weapon.
More generally, he has a predilection for avoiding in-person confrontations even as he relishes sparking controversy from a distance.
Other news gleaned from this celeb moment, other than an apparent predilection for early aughts era headwear: Leo likes Beyoncé!
With his predilection for small towns and their operation, Kuma had been one of the first architects to help Minamisanriku.
But that does not mean a brand has been dreamed up to suit business travelers of every preference and predilection.
They didn't see any kind of predilection that this was going to happen and they're horrified just like everyone else.
Fully embracing America's pre-World War II predilection for isolation, he assures us we have few moral responsibilities to others.
"Xi's predilection for state control in the economy has also starved the more efficient private sector of capital," she says.
Cooper Hefner, who shares his father's predilection for silk smoking jackets, thinks that changes at Playboy are bad for the brand.
While the predilection for down coats is an essentially harmless (if costly) sexual fetish, it's not always easy being a puffy.
Another parallel between the companies is a predilection for paying up for acquisitions, a hallmark of Mr. Pearson's years at Valeant.
Dead deeply cared about his band and his music, something that was as well-known as his predilection for the occult.
But my idea was that the people had a natural spiritual capacity, a natural predilection to spirituality, regardless of the religion.
What he observed was an unwavering predilection for veering right, which was able to keep traffic flowing smoothly, so to speak.
Or Mnuchin, who also hewed to an administration-wide predilection for requesting or using government planes instead of cheaper commercial ones.
As an artist, Heinze shows an understandable predilection for the Penguins' colors, black and gold, and a more-is-more aesthetic.
Supposedly, she does not have many political connections, but this may prove a benefit given the President's predilection for new thinking.
This left was authoritarian, statist, nationalist and anti-imperialist, with a certain predilection for armed struggle, and totally subservient to Havana.
Their former dominatrix assures her that he won't change — even if his dad and all his political allies know about his predilection.
That sound and feel would help lay the foundation for modern dance music and its predilection for digital grooves and hyperbolic personas.
It may look like a monkey, with its prehensile tail and predilection for chewing with its mouth open—but don't be fooled.
Pachyrhynchus weevils have a predilection for laying their eggs inside the fruit of a mangrove-dwelling plant called the fish-poison tree.
In "Durch Nacht und Nebel" ("By Night and Fog"), she keeps her audacious reputation intact, as well as her predilection for props.
Due to California's predilection for earthquakes and wildfires, my parents have always kept these documents in a fireproof box in our house.
To reinforce his point, the man held up a sign with the taunt, accusing Trump of having a predilection for overcooked steaks.
It's because they all have a thing — a signature quirk or predilection that they've championed, even when it's uncool to do it.
Noguchi's sculpture, on the other hand, was invariably suave and formally unified, with a particular predilection for natural forms, textures and materials.
Next, he was the enfant terrible, suspended and stripped of his captaincy for maturity issues that included a predilection for kicking opponents.
" A former lover (Ben Aldridge) is named for his particular sexual predilection; a new attraction (Ray Fearon) earns the title "Hot Misogynist.
Like her, Jessica speaks with an accent—flattened "R"s, tightened "O"s, elided consonants—and has a predilection for dropping articles.
Although it was his first time in Washington, the cityscape was already familiar to him, thanks to his predilection for Hollywood blockbusters.
She watches the way people move through a space, inadvertently contort themselves, and unconsciously display their aversion or predilection toward an object.
During an on-camera interview, one of the housewives proclaimed that my mother had predilection for giving daily blow-jobs to random men.
Edward Knipling and Raymond Bushland were two 20th century entomologists with a predilection for studying the sex lives of Cochliomyia hominivorax, or screwworm.
Vanity Fair chronicled allegations against him by former colleagues that included an addiction to sex workers and a predilection for spiking colleagues' drinks.
Some experts see it as deeply rooted in evolution, pointing to violent confrontations among groups of chimpanzees as clues to an ancestral predilection.
And yes, the rounded corners of the Galaxy S8's display definitely synergize nicely with Samsung's predilection for rounded shapes on the screen.
In the end, it is almost impossible to pinpoint exactly when Berlioz's personal obsession and opium predilection become the pretext for performance art.
Tyrell Wellick's main personality trait is his penchant for BDSM, a predilection that the actor playing him sometimes struggles mightily to make credible.
In the Middle East, leaders get Trump because they recognize a kindred spirit: A strongman with a predilection for events going his way.
Because in the modern workplace, even a supposedly "unbiased" bot will have at least one guaranteed predilection: maximizing value-creation among the workforce.
On "Atlanta," it's not technology that's the catalytic element, the intensifier of our predilection for self-delusion and misery—it's racism and poverty.
I originally thought he was a predator and if I were being generous I would say, he had a predilection for young girls.
They still knew of his temper, of his predilection for choosing starlets to "flirt" with like he was combing through a buffet bar.
It gave him a predilection for experimenting with twisting and chopping up sounds, making his scores immediately stand apart from the current landscape.
My criteria: They should support high arches, not provoke what appears to be a genetic predilection for bunions and generally look O.K., too.
Mr. Gordon is a writer and performer with a predilection for the "also pictured" and the "also ran," people whose names remain unboldfaced.
Trump's predilection for McDonald's has been reported before — he celebrated clinching the Republican presidential nomination in May with McDonald's and a Diet Coke.
What does the proliferation of farm-to-table restaurants say about city folks' perverse predilection for eating how most of us don't live?
Thanks in part to the president-elect's predilection for outbursts of fewer than 140 characters, he routinely comes across as petty and mercurial.
Those with GABAA receptors that were suppressed by alcohol—whose granule cells were less inhibited—showed a higher predilection for drinking a lot.
Those who choose to invest in a broad-market product like the S&P 500 may have no particular predilection for investing in energy.
It's another entirely that Trump allows them to take advantage of his unpreparedness and predilection for flattery to serve their needs instead of America's.
Arya set off to find Nymeria and her pack in the Riverlands and the two re-bonded immediately through the Starks' predilection for warging.
The Trump campaign has tried to flip Trump's predilection for insults by pinning the antagonistic tone of the race on Clinton's "insult-driven" campaign.
A childhood wrestling fan who spent much of his early teen life as a Jackass devotee, Darby already had a predilection for self-destruction.
All of that is, of course, true: Trump's illiberalism, and his predilection for inserting and expanding corruption wherever he can, is hardly a secret.
A collective detox after higher-than-average indulging during the holidays is healthy, for sure, but also an insight into one's predilection for drink.
Fighting these waste reduction rules signals a blatant disregard for our wallets, more so than their predilection for luxury travel on the taxpayers' dime.
A region of the city I had previously known primarily for its cheaper housing, Hells Angels, and predilection for tanning salons, had its own cuisine.
The rise of Trump, and his predilection for no-holds barred, bombastic tweeting, has coincided with the increase in trolling, abuse and harassment, on Twitter.
The snark levels may be toned down, but the Deadpool star makes no effort to disguise his voice or his natural predilection for sardonic humor.
Especially now, politics and pop culture feel more enmeshed than ever, perhaps because our leader honed his predilection for spewing unfiltered catchphrases on reality television.
The visuals are clean and attractive, though, while what you think of the sound will obviously depend on your predilection for Vocaloid-powered J-pop.
But before it could be completed, the Mets had to approve it in full, including a sequence celebrating the team's predilection for base-clearing brawls.
But Smith, whose predilection for recording eventually developed into something like a mania, started shooting and taping, and kept at it for almost a decade.
Growing up in Georgia as the child of artist parents, Mr. Arenella had a predilection for music and started playing trombone when he was 6.
Yes, there's a healthy dose of self-deprecating humor about Schwarzenegger's predilection for big cars and roles as tough characters — he was literally The Terminator.
In addition to our shared predilection for iPhones and personal vehicles, many Chinese have turned to Western-style diets full of fast food and soda.
So sitting quietly was a useful survival strategy and may have built a predilection for being sedentary into the architecture of our brains, he says.
Despite her inelegant attack, with its coarse brushwork, abbreviated forms, and predilection for darkish, grayed green-blues, the paintings possess a kind of brute grace.
" Her predilection, Mr. Soliday pointed out, is a little more complicated: "Leopard spots are meant to be camouflage, but with Sonia, it signals, 'I'm here.
Given Vince Gilligan's predilection for vérité when comes to cinema, I'm going to assume that we are looking at something close to a re-enactment.
In fact, we're actually a little surprised given her predilection for out-of-the-box styling she hasn't already tried that particular piece of DIY dressing.
The country's predilection for parties and pleasure is well-known from its mythical past—Dionysian orgies of wine-drinking and revelry lasting for days on end.
Chopra told BuzzFeed News that she passed some of his questions off as Khan's predilection for discussing sex with everyone on a film's set, including extras.
"I have a predilection for designers who in a way make us think differently about fashion, who go beyond notions of wearability or functionality," he said.
One final thought: Given Ramsay's predilection for having people fed to his dogs, wouldn't it be a fitting end for him to be snacked on himself?
He has already shown a predilection for mixing the country's business with his own — more accurately, leveraging the country's business for the benefit of his own.
I'm always preoccupied with finding meaning in everything, with creating a narrative out of the chaos of the everyday (this explains the predilection for astrology, probably).
The work's retail roots show that corporations are in tune with our desire to photograph ourselves with art and have the ability to capitalize on that predilection.
But to continue the series' strategy of centering on tales of persecution, A Light in the Darkness had to also continue its predilection for stretching the truth.
Right wingers have a predilection for fearing Antifa, despite the fact that they only seem to show up at neo-Nazi rallies and to protest police brutality.
They're both strapping six-footers, they're both fearsome warriors, and they've both got a predilection for biting chunks out of their enemies during one-on-one combat.
Although Alan McGee couldn't really decipher the difference, the band's Welsh fans held a torch for their predilection for writing songs in their native language of Welsh.
Yet his would-be Democratic successor, Al Gore mistakenly considered Mr Clinton so tarnished by his predilection for interns that he hardly deployed him on the trail.
Discussing President Trump's latest broadside against CNN on "The Five," Gutfeld said Trump's predilection for lashing out at the media comes from his viewership of Fox News.
C., antisocial nerd with a self-destructive streak) and Pink Guy (a sex-positive Lycra-clad alien with the same predilection for destruction, only he rapped, too).
But the inclination to hire someone so close to Moscow does raise questions about the Trump inner circle's predilection to hire someone linked to Russia and Ukraine.
Add to that Mr. Trump's predilection for trying to summarize complex issues in Twitter posts of a few words, and the potential for confusion can grow quickly.
And it tells men with a predilection for sexual violence that kink communities are a great place to find victims and a cover story in the same place.
The conflict is that Leslie is rumored to be a pervert and a pedophile, with a predilection and perhaps predatory nature toward girls a quarter of his age.
Ryan and Jeetha argued that polyamory is not just a choice, or a predilection that suits some people—it's our "natural" way of being, our sexual factory setting.
Trump's predilection for airpower was on display when he decided to respond to chemical weapons attack against civilians in Syria by launching cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield.
Carson and the real estate developer are not so different from one another in this predilection for outrageous utterances, it's just that one smiles and the other scowls.
We now know, for example, that the prevalence of violence against women in a country can be a predictor of a national predilection toward terrorism and civil conflict.
In December 1543, 20-year-old Adam Lanza acted out on his predilection for violence, anger and isolation by walking into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
The monkey king is an imaginary being with the strength of a superman, an ability to fly and a predilection for using his immense cudgel for destructive purposes.
Why doesn't Trump indulge his predilection for acting against expectations in a way that could be a boon to his base, or "my people," as he calls them?
An admirer of European fascists, he borrowed their predilection for khaki uniforms, and, more important, their conviction that a group of highly disciplined men could transform a nation.
He's just had to knock £300,000 off the asking price for a house originally valued at £1.5million – and all because of an innocent predilection for awful, awful decor.
All of them are dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, and most bring a predilection for downing pills with a dose of rakia, the ubiquitous Balkan homemade fruit brandy.
Natalie and Eva fell into a passionate romance, but Natalie could be a harsh lover, often criticizing what she saw as Eva's predilection for "effeminate" theaterarts, particularly musical performances.
With a sharp wit and a predilection for surface and form, Ligon's success stems from an instinct to isolate precisely the right words for his conceptual language-based practice.
That's what the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found when it asked about the president-elect's predilection for speaking digitally with his more than 20 million followers.
All right-thinking Southern wrestling fans were skeptical of McMahon's predilection for steroids and style over substance, and Luger might have rolled right off McMahon's juiced-up assembly line.
With all of this feeling as though it's happening above our heads, it seems natural that for some—especially millennials—a predilection for solitude has bled into daily life.
Maybe Durant's injury — likely to keep him out for all of next season — and Irving's boyhood predilection for the Nets when they played in New Jersey altered their thinking.
Because of the country's particular predilection towards ad blockers, many in the industry look to the situation Germany as a gauge of what's to come in the United States.
I still largely agree with the Joss Whedon quote from above — but I also think his predilection for killing characters off got kind of old about 10 years ago.
"John's predilection is to do it all himself and that impinges on Pompeo," says one person with knowledge of the inner workings of both the White House and State Department.
It contains all the seeds that were to germinate in the two dozen novels that followed, not least Mr Roth's predilection for provocation and a kind of burnished, resplendent blasphemy.
Day of the Dead is fifty-nine tracks and almost six hours worth of Dead-worship, doubling down on their predilection for bringing in immediately intriguing and brilliant pop musicians.
Eswar Prasad, a trade professor at Cornell, said the president's "mercurial temperament and predilection to undercutting his own negotiating team" had complicated the already challenging task of striking a deal.
The 22017-year-old Cottam's predilection for well-cut shirts and the tendency to extend an "s" into a "z" in an unplaceable internationalist accent marks him as an American Europhile.
The New Atheists tell other stories in this vein: about our predilection to believe in nonphysical entities, to believe in life after death, to believe that everything happens for a reason.
His "emotional predilection" for such places in boyhood—a typical Basler understatement—had become, in the water-lit land of the Camargue, a coup de foudre of both mind and senses.
Gorgeous as it was and is, the VAIO P stands as testament to Sony's predilection for wild ambition and tragic folly, and it's a sign of just how far we've come.
He satisfies this predilection by visiting strip clubs where he can pay Sierra—a biracial dancer who looks white but has inherited her black mother's booty—to dance in his lap.
If there were to be a seventh season, it could easily include a character based on Neumann, known for his distinctive long hair and predilection for walking around barefoot, Berg said.
He has also succumbed to his father's predilection for cooking with vinegar — "You need at least five vinegars in your pantry," Jean insists — and the family's preference for fuss-free desserts.
That book — a record of her equally passionate relationship with punctuation — gave us a rich example of her noble predilection for knowing everything there is to know about a single subject.
He began wondering why this animal was melancholy and about who might harm it, and then about humanity's "Sophie's Choice"-esque predilection for deeming some animals edible and other animals pets.
As teenagers begin to disentangle from their folks, they inevitably sort a parent's every behavior and predilection into one of two categories: those they reject, and those they intend to adopt.
Fredell is a garrulous bald man with glasses and a predilection for snus , the tea-bag-like sachets of tobacco that Swedes place underneath their upper lip to buzz their gums.
Though those who ascribe to it sometimes describe this fetish as a 'sexual orientation', the psychological underpinnings of the predilection are reminiscent of, if not within, the realm of BDSM culture.
She also never made a movie that was obviously about Woody Allen's predilection for much younger women amid her own sexual misconduct scandal—because Gadsby has never had a sexual misconduct scandal.
I had assumed this new predilection was just a phase, or a reversion to my natural nerd instincts, but I increasingly think it's a reaction to something else — to the real world.
"There's very little understanding or appreciation among healthcare providers for how addiction develops, for how these medications themselves are addictive -- even a patient's personal predilection for the problem of addiction," she said.
Zuckerberg disarmed his audience while collecting a Springer award for entrepreneurial spirit awarded for the first time this year, talking of his predilection for grey T-shirts and expertise in changing diapers.
Donald Trump, with his penchant for Versailles-style gilded furniture and his predilection for stamping the family crest on his properties, seems to have a particularly bad case of this national affliction.
The adorable 19663-vintage Bell helicopter, acquired in 1984, yet hovers above the stairs to the second floor, gamely signifying something epochal, or not so epochal, or bizarre, depending on your predilection.
Other than a predilection for petty theft, Elodie and her new friends (Kiana Madeira, Quintessa Swindell) ostensibly don't have much in common, but bonds form over the course of the half-hour episodes.
Another factor could be our human predilection for making decisions based on short-term payoffs, like deciding to fall back into a warm bed in the morning rather than get up and exercise.
Several years ago, a predilection among YouTube gurus for TMI videos, about anything from period stories to pubic hair preferences, foreshadowed this move toward videos that offer intimacy rather than straight beauty tips.
A couple of years ago, he was introduced to Mr. Porter, bonding with the entertainer through a shared affinity for musical theater, gospel music and R&B, and a predilection for the outré.
The political, social, and economic elite has resided in an ivory tower for a long time as it showed a predilection for cosmopolitanism, capitalist democracy, free trade, open borders, and cultural cross-pollination.
We can expect this because the current administration has clearly shown it has a predilection for the use of force over the exercise of diplomacy and because sometimes war is all but unavoidable.
Our predilection for novelty and self-expression may explain why young people are more likely to use car and ridesharing services—and why those that do are also less attached to specific brands.
But increasingly, as in the case of some One Direction fans' vast gay bandmate conspiracy, fans have shown a predilection for insisting that their ship involving real people is actually happening in reality.
It's not hard to see why it sold by the bucketload, nor is it difficult to understand why those of us with a predilection for mining the Alfredo/Amnesia continuum still love it.
Read more " _____ • Amy Davidson in The New Yorker: "Trump's world view seems to combine a distaste for Islam with a predilection for monarchs of any background — for anyone with a decent palace, really.
Those have been deepened by a series of scandals that have made him a familiar figure in the Bulgarian news media, along with his predilection for fancy cars, sprawling villas and private jets.
The stalwart British consumer, hammered by falling living standards and with a predilection for personal debt over savings, may finally be giving up the ghost, robbing the economy of its principle engine of growth.
The media has developed a predilection to pounce on reports of clowns behaving badly, while movies like "The Devil's Rejects" and comic books like "A Cotton Candy Autopsy" presented children's jokesters as secret hellions.
And given this administration's predilection for getting entangled in thorny lawsuits—like the unending litigation over the travel ban—it's quite possible that Twitter will find itself in court again, over the same issue.
Forgiving the bad puns, it is certainly true that the troubling connections between the Trump administration and Russia are far more concerning than Trump's predilection for over-cooked meat and a sugar-laced condiment.
This predilection, combined with a lack of democratic scrutiny, makes it "extraordinarily opaque, extraordinarily slow, extraordinarily bureaucratic" and utterly ill-suited to a fast world of "gene drives, lethal autonomous robotics, you name it".
Despite his predilection for living in Versailles-like accommodations, and even though he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Donald Trump styles himself as a populist, a man of the people.
Blame the cold water (swimming pools are at a comfortable 80 degrees compared the ocean's 56), sharks' natural predilection to swimming, or the simple fact that they're sharks, but Phelps has no hard feelings.
Her predilection for "compromise" (read that as getting to a deal which might from the outside appear to be a sellout) will undoubtedly do damage to the interests of the middle-class hoi polloi.
The arrangement, analysts say, reflects the way the secretary of state and his agency have been overshadowed by an unorthodox administration with several foreign policy power centers and a strong predilection for military leaders.
From the instant Villanelle, the lightly self-mocking assassin of "Killing Eve" played by Jodie Comer, dispatches a Mafia don by plunging a hairpin into his eye, her predilection for theatrical extremes is plain.
From there, Mr. Schenk ran with it on his own, inventing an elaborate back story for the elderly drug mule, complete with a resentful daughter, a guilty conscience and a predilection for pecan pie.
The boho aesthetic reconciled the cheery California part of Hudson's image with the "rocker" predilection — a point driven home in a sprawling 2000 Vanity Fair profile, set against the backdrop of Robinson's New York loft.
At the wood-paneled bar, Gelmini — a round and bearded man with a predilection for dizzy patterns — mixes drinks in a glass carafe with a long golden spoon, amid bell jars and cut crystal canisters.
Each contestant's journey begins when they step out of a limo (or a minivan) and introduce themselves to the Bachelorette, a momentous occasion that involves varying degrees of awkwardness and a predilection for cheesy metaphors.
Given the site's predilection for bone-related jokes (such as the fictional skeleton war or the not-entirely-fictional bone stealing witch), Tumblr provided an ideal environment for bone hurting juice to enter mass production.
Acquaintances of Madsen have previously told reporters that he was very open about his predilection for sadistic sexual activity and authorities have claimed to have found videos of women being decapitated on his personal computer.
That testimony was read out loud in the courtroom Wednesday to the jury as part of an effort by the prosecution to show that Mr. Cosby had a predilection for using drugs to incapacitate women.
That predilection aside, policymakers could take one easy step to prove its critics wrong: announce a timeline for when it intends to start a long-telegraphed, gradual reduction in the size of its balance sheet.
" In a devastating review of Stardust Memories for The New Yorker, Pauline Kael asked, "What man in his forties but Woody Allen could pass off a predilection for teenagers as a quest for true values?
Chapo was already known to be a prodigious philanderer, and there were some reports that he had a predilection for younger women, but the new details stripped away illusions about the depths of his evil.
"The predilection of the director, producer and scenarist for the unusual in mood, background music and characterization makes this chase more confusing than suspenseful," a film critic for The New York Times wrote in 1946.
"With this latest fiasco, we again call on the Company to install an independent chairman with suitable experience to bring new leadership to the Board and rein in management's predilection for value-destruction," Appaloosa said.
And while Ziggy seems not to have inherited that predilection, he is saddled with a heavier truth about his father that has thus far been kept from his brothers: that Perry was a bad guy.
This is in large part because of our biological predilection for homeostasis, or physiological stability, which prompts our bodies to regain any weight that we lose and, in theory, lose any weight that we gain.
And Nathaniel bears a distinct resemblance to Jim Jones: A former Bible study leader, he has a startling predilection for brutality and controls the sex lives of his flock while he himself fornicates at will.
While some people with a predilection for addiction, such as those suffering from comorbidities like obsessive-compulsive disorder, may be at greater risk, the overwhelming majority of people will never become addicted to their phones.
Moreover, as much as Trump has given us good reason to question his temperament, the one real exception to his predilection for ill-considered actions has been in decisions involving the use of military force.
People in East Asian countries, including some immigrants in the US, have a predilection for wearing face masks in public to shield against smog (or, more generally, germs), even when they aren't necessarily sick. ALSO.
Paul Myners, a former British financial services minister, said the sale was more evidence of the City's predilection to "sell at a reasonable premium, get out, don't invest for the future, don't back the British economy".
So given their predilection for wearing clothing that contradicts their actual environments, it should come as no surprise that Kylie Jenner opted to wear some leather and fur in the midst of an 80° Calabasas day.
If there is one common thing that characterizes the run-of-the-mill emerging market economy it is distrust of free trade and predilection of policymakers for high tariff walls that might benefit the favored few.
At the heart of this predilection for the flight over the fight is a tacit ideology that is wildly out of step with the political reality of Trump's America, where villains abound with almost comic ubiquity.
IT WAS A RELIEF to see Monsieur Azzdine — burly, bearded, bespectacled, all flesh and blood, with a chipped-tooth smile and a predilection for Winston cigarettes — materialize out of the speculative haze of a WhatsApp chat.
The food of Italy, in particular its pasta, was one of several running themes on Mr. Portale's menus at Gotham, braided together with French cuisine, strictly seasonal East Coast ingredients and a homegrown predilection for emphatic flavors.
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This predilection, which was crucial when survival depended on constantly monitoring the environment, makes it hard for us to ignore 140-character Twitter streams, television shows, social media updates from our friends and families, and even advertising.
As the computer revolution maintained its predilection toward room-temperature chips, these odd and unique machines are a connection to an alternate timeline where physics is wrestled into submission in order to do some truly remarkable things.
We may never know the details of this unusual escape, but we can say that this man—who has a predilection for allegedly committing food-related crimes—certainly knows how to use olive oil to his advantage.
Indeed, Mr. Trump, of all presidents, should know what to expect given his predilection for making employees sign nondisclosure agreements, a practice he brought from the private sector to his 2016 campaign and the subsequent presidential transition.
Touches like doors with wrought-iron strap hinges and windows with muntins also hint at Mr. Schafer's predilection for the past, while adding to the imaginary sense of a house that has grown and changed over time.
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He is presenting himself as an antidote to the politics-as-brawl predilection that has become so central to the messaging of both parties and, he believes, has sapped the electorate of any hope for an alternative.
The crown prince, or MBS as he is known, has spearheaded Saudi Arabia's two-year war in Yemen, with the U.S. military providing strategic support, and has demonstrated a predilection for confrontation when it comes to Iran.
Shifting between painting and illustration, Stetson portrays iconic figures from our current cultural moment, with a clear predilection for comic book superheroes and sci-fi characters, as well as the actors who've portrayed them in recent blockbusters.
Patterns in subject matter, such as the scenes of motherhood and child-rearing depicted by artists such as Berthe Morisot or Mary Cassatt, can be attributed to sociological factors, artistic expectations, or personal predilection, not to gender.
The names being floated may reflect the President-elect's predilection for leaders with a "tough guy" profile, but they also mark a 180-degree turn from some of the insults he leveled at military figures during the campaign.
It's a predilection he ascribes to his father, Rip Ruhlman, who did the food shopping for the family and who makes frequent appearances in his son's latest book, "Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America" (Abrams).
As someone with a slightly awkward kitchen layout, which means appliances are often not surrounded by easily accessible counters (ah, city living), and a predilection for grabbing things out of the microwave without checking first, these are brilliant.
Some of the weakness seen in the retail space, aside from Amazon's perceived and demonstrated impact on some brick-and-mortar retailers, comes as a result of consumers' predilection for entertainment and travel over retail products, she said.
Adweek noticed the same predilection for nostalgia in last year's slate of Super Bowl ads, which included Cindy Crawford rebooting her Pepsi ad from 290 and Steven Tyler using a Kia as a time machine back to the 1970s.
But weirdness keeps popping up, from Rose's creepy lax bro brother (Caleb Landry Jones) to Mom's predilection for hypnosis to, most of all, the black maid and black housekeeper, who have the vacant stares and empty cadence of hostages.
Describing the Romans as barbaric may seem apt, given their predilection for extreme violence and torture as a form of entertainment, but some of the ghastlier stories of Roman sadism appear to have been inflated by anti-Roman historians.
Although her practice involves a certain degree of appropriation, the artist is particularly selective when it comes to finding her raw material, generally looking for tapestries adapting canonical art masterpieces, with a predilection for those that depict nude females.
Although lichen sclerosus can form on any skin surface, it has a predilection for a woman's vulva and, less often, a man's penis, and it can so disrupt people's sex lives that divorce or celibacy is sometimes the outcome.
This is the largest exhibition yet devoted to Segers, an under-known Dutch master whose printmaking innovations, talent for contrasting textures and predilection for rendering each sheet a unique artwork resulted in images that are tantamount to small paintings.
Certainly he is recognized for artworks that obsess over death, capital, and all things macabre, as well as his predilection for pickling sharks and other creatures in aqua-tinted formaldehyde, but he is best known for being brash, crass, and profitable.
They discovered an option within the platform that lets brands cater to (or exclude) people by ethnic affinity—in other words, users the company's judged to have a distinct predilection for African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanics or other racial groups.
A brash and brazen mercenary, he's an anti-hero with a film noir character's taste for the louche and low-down, as well as a character who, in narrative terms, stands out due to his predilection for breaking the fourth wall.
She has a predilection for recounting embarrassing moments in historic locations—bleeding through her pants at the White House, nearly shitting her pants at the Vatican (she has IBS)—and her candor is what makes this a surprisingly good advice book.
It presents him as having scant respect for human rights, an absolute certainty that state power (if exercised by him and other members of the patrician class) is benign, a predilection for violence and war, and creepy eugenic racial views.
Which means that fitness aficionados with a predilection for at-home workout machines — and with the budget to match — are shelling out a collective $5,000 for both a Tonal and a Peloton and never have to go to the gym again.
Polish leaders have been so eager for such a presence that they even offered to name a base Fort Trump, an unabashed appeal to the president's known predilection for branding everything from buildings to neckties to steaks with his name.
There are 22011 online video services available in the United States, according to the research firm Parks Associates, one for seemingly every predilection — Pongalo for telenovelas, AeroCinema for aviation documentaries, Shudder for horror movies, Horse Lifestyle for equine-themed content.
He has pushed back on a theory that his lighthearted demeanor and predilection for trick shots mean that he is not serious about tennis, yet he said in the ESPN interview that Svitolina has brought "more discipline" to his game.
For this reviewer, the shift in Shaw's approach toward the stories he tells — from eyewitness to editorializing narrator — points to a predilection in the art world to rely on easy representations of victims, victimhood, and victimization to prove ideological points.
He brings energy and enthusiasm to every character, with a toothy and disarming grin and a predilection for roles that let him try new things, whether it's acting essentially alone in 127 Hours or parodying himself in This Is the End.
So while the story seems to appeal to Trump's predilection for the grotesque — and appears to revive the direct advocacy of torture and war crimes that were a hallmark of his presidential campaign — all indications are that it's false and completely nonsensical.
The big picture: Bolsonaro has been called the "Trump of the Tropics" for his populist and nationalist views as well as his predilection to attack news outlets for critical coverage and occasionally spread fake news on social media to propagate controversial stances.
Instead he's on a tear, threatening his accusers, the media and anyone else who would dare challenge his treatment of women over the years, despite the growing chorus of claims that Trump has a predilection for sexually predatory and demeaning behavior toward women.
Nintendo's been releasing a lot of classic SNK fighters on the Switch, as well as the Ultra Street Fighter II remaster, so it's a good opportunity to put this large controller to use for anyone who has a strong predilection towards fighting games.
In this debate, perhaps more than any other, the question of whether to fact-check the candidates emerged as a primary concern, considering Trump's predilection for factually inaccurate assertions and how little pushback he has faced on the veracity of his statements.
As the Israeli journalist Ben Caspit observed, Netanyahu views this cohort, with its predilection for assimilation, as being on the verge of extinction: "Soon they will be at the threshold of the abyss and will simply collapse from within and disappear," Caspit writes.
Before Alec Koone released records on Tri Angle and played festivals across the globe, the producer/songwriter now known as Balam Acab was playing open mic nights like any bored high school kid with a predilection for music making tends to do.
Luce was particularly good with the elderly, who were grateful for any kindness, and clutched at her hands as if she were not a middle-aged woman with a predilection for melancholy but a young person suffused with purpose and energy, radiantly smiling.
That statement might have garnered more attention had he not made it a day before the disclosure of a 2005 "Access Hollywood" video, in which he spoke, in graphic terms, of his own predilection for sexual assault and the impunity that celebrity confers.
Earlier this year, CHC members had expressed hope Congress and the White House could easily pass legislation to end further deportations and to help veterans already removed from the country, believing politicians' predilection toward being seen as veteran-friendly would grease the legislative skids.
The translation might not be too useful for tourists who won't be voting in Japanese elections, but without understanding the country's predilection for political posters, you might be wondering why every street was plastered with the smiling faces of various 60-year-old men.
A complex installation of wall art, imagined documentary film, and sculpture from the art collective ULTRAFUTURO uses yeast cells injected with the so-called "God gene" that supposedly explains humanity's predilection for the supernatural to create a relic that challenges how science and faith intersect.
In a world where cat cafés steal the spotlight, Condé Nast Traveler reports that New York City is getting its very first dog café, giving people with a predilection for four-legged friends of the dog variety a new spot to snap Instagram photos.
Never mind that authorities have suggested Kelley targeted his mother-in-law, who had attended the church, as part of an ongoing domestic dispute, which in turn links Kelley to other mass murderers of recent vintage, many of whom share a predilection for domestic violence.
No. The characters have concerns — they have lives that are very complicated, and problems that are very serious, and I think they treat themselves and their own interests, humorously but also seriously, and I don't think it's their predilection to focus on the jokey side.
Over the years, balancing his natural predilection for emotive songwriting with the heaviness of the vogue sounds he fell in love with he's ended up with a sound that's unique even among that wildly talented crew, which is a feat in its own right.
" You can enjoy the entire essay from Ms. Miller's book "Listening Against the Stone: Selected Essays," and the entire quote from which the acrostic is taken is as follows: "This predilection for the mystic has been with me ever since I was a child.
Interest in charitable giving spikes after a hurricane or other natural disaster, drawing in new donors, or donors whose general predilection is to fund a group in the US. Those donors could fund a Houston pilot without taking money from projects in Africa, Faye suggested.
A room dedicated to similarly self-aggrandizing portraits commissioned by court personalities vying for power shows a predilection for playing dress up: Hortense Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin, is depicted as Diana, while the Duchess of Cleveland and son are seen as the Virgin and Child.
Museums & Galleries This exhibition, closing on Sunday, is the largest yet devoted to Segers, an under-known Dutch master whose printmaking innovations, talent for contrasting textures and predilection for rendering each sheet a unique artwork resulted in images that are tantamount to small paintings.
"I am an information junkie," she writes, and because of this predilection, she has a hard time explaining what might be called Huntington's paradox: Before the gene for Huntington's disease was found, about three-quarters of at-risk people wanted to know their genetic status.
For many years (and we're talking, like, back in the 1990s and 203s), that predilection for nominating new things meant the Globes were sometimes held up by TV fans as cooler than the Emmys, which has always been staid and stuck in its ways.
In a world where everything about you as a person—every whim, desire, predilection—is searchable and retrievable, the lack of concrete information available about a group of people who are otherwise enshrined in the permanency of this music video is about as depressing as it gets.
Wall Street's predilection for a glass-half-full view of Trump is on full display as investors back off fears that a failure to repeal Obamacare would endanger his entire agenda in favor of optimism that he will simply get on with tax cuts and infrastructure spending.
I've mentioned Wayne's predilection for East Coast lyrical formalism, and Cam is in many ways the apotheosis of that style, Wayne's northern counterpart in dizzying multisyllable rhymes and flat-out weirdness (it's probably not a coincidence that Wayne has worked so much with Cam's partner Juelz Santana).
Obviously with people involved in punk, you'd hope they'd have a predilection to questioning at least the mainstream, but a website called "Punknews" recently just happened to be somehow less sensitive to the issues pertaining to the trans community than major political figures in American politics.
While Kanaris hasn't seen an increase in clients talking about moms they'd like to fuck, he says the topic often comes up because it's a source of shame, either because the client is personally concerned about their predilection or because a significant other finds out about it.
Maybe before the expulsion of its Jews in 1492 you could find some top-of-the-line Sephardi fusion in Cordoba, Granada, or Toledo, but the country's predilection for cured ham and fresh seafood make it hard to find good eats that would meet rabbinic approval.
Books of The Times Jose Antonio Vargas comes from a family of gamblers, and in his new book, "Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen," he's upping the ante — or maybe, given the current executive's predilection for travel bans and family separations, he's going all in.
Others here have written about Yamamoto's yakuza-colored backstory as well as his family's wrestling pedigree and his personal predilection for right hooks, but the short version is that throughout the early to mid-2000s, Yamamoto was a god among men in K-1 and Shooto.
More recently, Rafael Correa, the president of Ecuador from 2007 until last month, who came to office on an anti-elite wave and shared with Mr. Trump a predilection for tweeting insults at his enemies, spent public funds abundantly on schools, poverty, health clinics and highways.
Margaret Molloy, one of the judges of the costume contest that was part of the event, milled through the room eyeing attendees in costume, and finally selected a winner: Renie Reiss, a dancer and Joyce devotee from the Upper West Side with a predilection for period dressing.
Juliana Huxtable, an artist who often tweets about her predilection for mind-altering substances and whose Twitter display name used to be "YUNG LIMINAL CRISIS AKA ABJECTION DOLL *SOBBIN*," creates art from the dissociative space, birthing her gallery shows and poems during out-of-body experiences.
Friends sometimes mention Moore's passion for country music as if it were a quirk, which may reveal less about him than about the buttoned-down culture of the S.B.C.—there may be no other office building in Nashville where such a predilection would be considered noteworthy.
That line shows the kind of swagger you need to be a good rapper, but paired with her own proven predilection for cluelessness, as well as the misguided belief in her own pure, unique pathway into this industry, it suggests she still doesn't have one up on Azalea.
Starting with his June 257th, 220 campaign announcement at Trump Tower and continuing through hundreds of rallies leading to his election, the president-to-be had a strong predilection, like stage performers of his ilk, for microphones so proximate to his mouth that they could readily absorb his spit.
Orientalism surfaces in the New Age commodification of Eastern spirituality, in the predilection to glom separate cultures into a blurry whole, in the freedom that still seems to be felt in making open declarations about having a fetish for Asian women or dismissing the sexuality of Asian men.
In finance, this predilection to close out winning trades and hang on to losers is known as the "disposition effect," and it is a consequence of what economic psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky call "loss aversion," whereby people go to unreasonable lengths in order to avoid losing money.
Given MbS's apparent predilection for making poor policy decisions — the Yemen war, the rift with Qatar, the temporary kidnapping of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, the August squabble with Canada over a tweet — it would nice, if not essential, if we could rein in some of his wilder moves.
She extracted DNA material from the samples and ran it through a sophisticated set of technologies called forensic DNA phenotyping, a technique increasingly used by private laboratories to assist in criminal investigations, genomics companies in determining one's predilection for disease, and law enforcement in establishing DNA profiles of suspects.
Unlike many of his decadent mates, Mr. Gibbs was wise, worldly and endowed with both a work ethic and a refined if finicky taste that was undiminished by his extensive experimentation with drugs or his predilection for exotica, like a stuffed, two-headed lamb and a collection of whips.
Especially not after the issues she's had in the past with Stone, whose predilection for provocative social posts about his own case resulted in a gag order from Jackson, a total ban on using Instagram or Twitter, and repeated hearings over whether he'd violated that gag order or not.
His trial quickly devolved into weird drama thanks to Stone's predilection for provocative posts on social media about his own case — resulting in a gag order from the judge, a total ban on using Instagram or Twitter, and repeated hearings over whether he'd violated his gag order or not.
It's unclear how much of this is a joke — Woolley offered such zingers as his dog's platform being "anti-squirrel" — but Angus' leadership style seems similar to Donald Trump's in at least one way: Both show a predilection for hiring members of their own households to run their administrations.
By contrast, Gucci's clothes are generally simplistic in shape (track tops, single-­breasted blazers, bowed blouses, a predilection for a 1970s flare) with a focus on shimmering surfaces and overloaded detailing: sequins, custom-­woven jacquards, buttons in the form of jeweled lion's heads or gumdrop pearls, sleeves dipped in mink.
Nestler himself has commented on his predilection to not let things simply be: I tried to find the shortest way for me to show the most important aspects: to perceive, to recognize and to decide with others, this should be changed or that should be preserved or not be overlooked.
Colonna's '90s collections feel like ancestors of the kind of clothes being made to great acclaim today by Demna Gvasalia and his teams at Vetements and Balenciaga, with their predilection for "cheap" materials like velour, Lycra or polyester, their sharp, skinny silhouettes and their knowing challenging of fashion's traditional status symbols.
Others take moral issue with the idea that a corporation is profiting off of the nation's predilection for incarceration as a one-size-fits-all answer to crime, and rewarded for the sheer number of inmates they can warehouse, rather than for developing successful rehabilitation programs and producing positive reentry outcomes.
Recalling the harms of the Bush years is important because, in our hysterical present, where hyperbole is the coin of the realm, we have an unfortunate predilection to hold up "Now" as the worst of all possible worlds and forget just how bad it was only a few years ago.
By collecting the victims of many wild parachute plants Dr Dötterl and Ms Heiduk discovered that most of the trapped insects were flies of the genus Desmometopa, a group with a predilection for sucking up vital fluids that leak out of honey bees as their bodies are pierced by the fangs of spiders.
Given that all three fighters are friendly with GSP and have worked with him in some capacity in the past or present, and given that we at Fightland love St-Pierre's interest in dinosaurs almost as much as he loves dinosaurs, we decided to ask all three men about their associate's prehistoric predilection.
Another standout in a smartly outfitted cast that makes this one of the most style-savvy movies you're likely to see this year is Evelyn Deavor, a 21st-century tech wizard, who wears her hair in ragged auburn thatch and has a marked predilection for gauzy man-cut shirts and wicked ankle boots.
Mr. Malek's pre-existing predilection toward privacy had been strongly reinforced, he said, by his performance as Freddie Mercury, the bombastic and brazenly carnal frontman of the rock group Queen, who died of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1991, and whom Mr. Malek plays in "Bohemian Rhapsody," which is to be released Nov. 2.
The main issue is that this predilection may be hurting millennials in the job market: According to a study published last month by professors at the University of Miami and the University of Western Australia, tattoos make no difference in terms of getting hired or earning what you are worth (h/t Jeff Haden).
The wall works in both of these exhibitions are rarely 2D, with Steciw removing abstracted chunks from many of her images to be placed on top of other works leaving gaping holes in the process and with Wilson's predilection for rough, undulated surfaces made of industrial materials for her vibrant and often fragmented works.
The local economy was in good order, and aside from an early foofaraw around his office's use of public funds (a strong predilection for luxury vehicles and damask drapes gave rise to the nickname "Coupe Deval"), his time in office was free of the kind of self-dealing that is common in the Commonwealth.
While their 2013 self-titled debut and 2016 follow-up, The Dream Is Over, cemented their predilection for crushing melodic riffs and gang vocals, Morbid Stuff is where PUP truly meet their potential—while also shoving it in the mud, spitting in its face, and raising the bar higher for themselves and their genre.
"The words tempus and temple share the same root as temenos, a sanctuary, and ultimately derive from the Greek verb temno, for hewing, slicing and wounding," she writes in regards to Damien Hirst's predilection for ephemeral creatures such as butterflies, before delving into comparing art galleries and museums to modern-day temples and mausoleums.
The creatures here include the Niffler, which looks like a duck-billed platypus and has a predilection for shoplifting; the Bowtruckle, a spindly green plant that suggests a tiny version of those wind socks you see at car dealerships; and the rather alarming Erumpent, which resembles a rhino with a pool of lava glowing beneath its horn.
Her Inheritance Trilogy made a splash a few years back, and The Fifth Season, which is set on a land mass called the Stillness undergoing rather un-still environmental upheaval, promises to be an even deeper, richer display of both her world-building prowess (there are two appendices) and her predilection for a diverse slate of complex characters.
Max Hooper Schneider at High Art Like entering a mad scientist's lab with a predilection for heavy metal and those kitschy plasma globes you would find at Spencer's in the early 2000s, artist Max Hooper Schneider's booth via High Art was undeniably one of the most unique booths in the entire fair in terms of materials alone.
This relationship is evident throughout its games, which are littered with references to fan forum in-jokes, most blatantly via a recurring character, M'aiq the Liar, who routinely dispenses quips about the same forum's predilection for rumor and speculation, and has done in every game since Morrowind—making him, perhaps unwittingly, part of its creeping shadow.
Ida was about a young nun who leaves her life at the cloister and discovers just how small the borders of her life have been, and the tighter framing and austere coloration served the film well, along with Pawlikowski's predilection for positioning his subjects in the bottom of the frame, leaving lots of empty space above their heads.
In the months I have been writing these essays for The Times (of which this is the last), I have been drawn, almost against my will, to notice the intensifying politicization of the literary world and, hand in hand with that, a predilection for melodrama, for prose that stimulates extreme emotions — in good causes of course.
Beyond international stars, Pierini has a predilection for his Brazilian roots, frequently portraying legends like Bossa Nova singer Elis Regina (made of vinyl discs and audio speakers), pedagogical philosopher Paulo Freire (manifested in an arrangement of didactic school books), as well as Renato Russo, the late singer of punk rock band Legião Urbana (unsurprisingly forged from musical instruments, as well).
Cooperation between Israel and Egypt has increased to a high level in recent years, evidenced by recent reports on military coordination in Sinai, but this somewhat secret alliance has not been easy for some Egyptian generals to reconcile, given their predilection for conditioning the Egyptian public to believe that Israel is Enemy No. 1 in order to gain legitimacy and maintain control.
The experience is an hours-long smorgasbord of both typical Halloween fright fare like zombies and ghosts, mixed with a few nods to this century's predilection for torture porn, a decent helping of fetuses in jars (and even one being kept warm by a demonic nurse), corpses convulsing in acid, and—because it wouldn't be 2016 without them—some fucking evil clowns.
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Mary Gabriel's recent book, "Ninth Street Women," about the emergence of Abstract Expressionism in 1940s New York, offers the compelling theory that the arrival of European artists during World War II fundamentally altered the egalitarian ethos of the artistic community the young American painters had established: When the Europeans came, they brought the history of male perceptual authority with them, along with a predilection for alcohol and misogyny.
"Victim of Me," the first song released off the album, captures their trademark short, fast, and melodic sound, but now, as Aukerman sings, "No longer will I travel aimlessly," you've got to wonder if the members—who are now in their 50s—have finally matured from the kids they were when they wrote "I Don't Want to Grow Up." Although judging by Stevenson's adulthood predilection for fart jokes, probably not.
Personal:Birth date: March 21, 1955 Birth place: Campinas, Brazil Birth name: Jair Messias Bolsonaro Father: Percy Geraldo Bolsonaro, dentist Mother: Olinda Bonturi Bolsonaro Marriage: Michelle Bolsonaro, Ana Cristina Valle (divorced), Rogéria Bolsonaro (divorced) Children: with Michelle Bolsonaro: Laura; with Ana Cristina Valle: Jair Renan; with Rogéria Bolsonaro: Flavio, Carlos and Eduardo Education: Agulhas Negras Military Academy, 1977 Military: Army, Captain Religion: Roman Catholic Other Facts:A conservative provocateur, Bolsonaro has a predilection for making inflammatory statements.
For all the rising enmity toward Mark Helfrich, the Ducks' worst record on his watch is 228-215 and last week's upending at Nebraska is as much a byproduct of gruesome injury luck—Oregon lost its best player and workhorse tailback (Royce Freeman), its star left tackle (Tyrell Crosby) and most explosive pass catcher (Devon Allen) within a couple of quarters of each other—as Helfrich's odd predilection for two-point conversions.
The results from the Iowa caucuses revealed that Republican caucusgoers gave roughly even support to the top three finishers — Ted Cruz, a much-loathed anti-institutional who has shown a pyromaniac's predilection for wanting to torch Washington rather than make it work; the real estate developer spouting nativist and even fascist policies with the fervor of a prosperity preacher; and Marco Rubio, a too-slick-to-be-trusted stripling who oozes ambition with every obviously rehearsed response.
Saunders often pays imaginative attention to corporations, bureaucracies, and nomenclature (Pfizer should hire the coiner of Docilryde™, Bonviv™, and Darkenfloxx™ the way the Ford Motor Company once enlisted Marianne Moore), and he has a predilection for creepy theme parks: the title stories of "Pastoralia" (2000) and "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline" (1996) involve troubled attractions where caveman life and the American Civil War are reënacted; the latter venue is replete with ghosts and apparitions.
Father Divine, the charismatic Harlem preacher, has since come to be known for his outsized megalomania, his predilection for Cadillacs and other excesses, but contemporary Civil Rights leaders and sociologists long acknowledged (if at times begrudgingly) his importance to New York's black community in the years before World War II. Divine was legendary for his free meals to anyone who wanted them (his Sunday feasts attracted thousands, lasting well into the night), and for his ability to find his followers reliable and steady employment, elevating them out of poverty.

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